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Matthew Poole was one of the most influential Puritan ministers and thinkers of the seventeenth century. A Protestant clergyman in England during a time of religious persecution, he fled the country due to threats of assassination. Poole was known as a devoted Christian, full of integrity and perseverance, in addition to being a great theologian and writer. His commentary series has been a...

power of God, that could by such slight means cure so desperate a disease. Thy flesh shall come again; which was in great part consumed by the leprosy. See Numb. 12:12. 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, †║I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and †strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Naaman was wroth; supposing himself despised and mocked by the prophet. Herein he gives an example of the perverseness